"We have high aspirations for our football program and we are not satisfied with its current direction," Maturi said in a statement. "The results so far this season have been unacceptable and the program has simply not shown enough improvement over the past three and a half years to continue with the status quo."

"Obviously, I hired a football coach that didn't win enough games," Maturi said at a press conference today. But he softened the blow a little with some praise:

There are a lot of good things about our football program because of Coach Brewster. Not the least of which are the improvements academically, the improvements of our student athletes in the community, the tremendous passion and energy and visibility that I think that he has brought.

And in case anyone was wondering, "Tony Dungy shared with me that he is not interested in getting back into coaching."